Comments on: Up to Speed with the FileMaker PHP API

By: pirco

pirco — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:53:40 +0000

to answer my question (which I found on some forum).
@ signs need to be replaced with “\”@\”" (escaped quotes around the @ sign).

By: pirco

pirco — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:24:35 +0000

hi, coming in late but with an issue:
I try to perform a find on an email field and even though the email address exists, no records are found. I realized that this might be due to the @ sign in the address. could this be? and what’s the work around?

thanks!

By: pirco

pirco — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:20:31 +0000

hoping that someone’s still watching this … GREAT post!!

I’m having trouble finding records via my FileMaker PHP interface that include the @ sign. my “email” field, for example, contains a bunch of… email addresses. but when I search that field for, say ‘test@test.com’ (and THAT email address is IN the dB), I get no results.
if I search for just ‘test’, it returns the proper result.

I’ve tried urlencode() and decode() and what not but it doesn’t seem to work. or am I just not doing that right?

any help appreciated!

By: George

George — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:57:50 +0000

Hello,

I am a filemaker pro developer and I am just exploring the php side. I found your explanation very helpful.
I am creating a solution that employees can enter their time cards online. The FM solution work fine. It is all related, the employee enters (from a drop down list) his name, project and in a portal his time. This works good. I am trying to make this on the web through php. I cannot find a way to create a related new record with FM and php. Any ideas how it can be done? I can create a new employee, a new project, but I cannot create a new time card entry and relate it to a specific employee and project. Any help would be highly appreciated.

Regards

By: Geoff Coffey

Geoff Coffey — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:16:52 +0000

Nickster:

Sorry for the slow response. Vacation

You can absolutely do what you want. You just need to install the PHP API on your web server. There is an independent installer on the FileMaker Server install CD.

Geoff

By: Nickster

Nickster — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:43:22 +0000

We’re running Filemaker Server 9 on a Mac Pro which is not a web server. Our web server is another Mac Pro. The instructions for installing the PHP API look like you’re supposed to install the PHP files on the same server where FMPS is running.

Can we run the PHP on our web server and use it to query the FMP server? I can’t find any information on this. TIA.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:02:58 +0000

Thanks for this page; very helpful.

I have figured out how to use CWP and PHP to fire off a script in FMP.

Now I want to call an external script in a second database from that first script that imports the data from the first db. No joy! 8-(

Is this not possible? Thanks!

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:54:18 +0000

Excellent article. Thank you very much.

By: David

David — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 02:11:57 +0000

Jozias, si eu lembrou corretamente, voce tem que por o fm php no servidor ondo voce tem o database. se voce esta usando fm server advanced, por o api no servidor com filemaker e depois pode ter o php files no servidor outro que tem o website.

By: Jozias

Jozias — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:01:02 +0000

Hello Geoff… I have a question…

I’m using the Filemaker.php library to connect with the database…

the website and the database are in the same host…

I want to put the website in other host, but I can’t connect with the database…

The Filemaker.php library should be with the database or with the website?

I hope you can help me…
a hug…

Jozias